Automate enemy behavior

[andydelso]

Thoughts:

• Enemy is on some sort of a patrol route until triggered
• Trigger shouldn't be immediate (3 second delay?)
• Once triggered, the enemy should navigate to where they spotted the player and do a special patrol for a bit, then return to normal patrol
• Enemy have a LOS mechanic which has a max distance they can see and it is blocked by solid objects at a minimum (i.e brick, stone, etc)
• Thought about tall grass as an obstacle like in pokemon or horizon zero dawn. That should block too but the player can move through it (related to obstacle item as well)

[BedfordWest]

Makes sense. I think a high level extrapolation is the following:

• States: Patrolling, Stationary, Alert (possibly more later like injured, etc.)
• LOS
• Trigger conditions and effects

[BedfordWest]

@ddaypunk06 for now, what do you think of the idea of having the "patrol" state be a random movement pattern? Each game cycle, we could determine where the enemy will move. To prevent completely scatter-brained behavior, we could prefer one direction based on some conditions like maybe length of room in each direction or something.

Also, we need to figure out what to do for LOS. Will it be visible to the player somehow? Otherwise, how will the player know if they are at risk of being spotted or not?

[andydelso]

Yep this is what I was thinking as well.